Also, solar companies typically continue to raise their fees in the contract each year it is owned.

A business/way of life to continue? 

Those people overlooking what it means to “materially participate”Here’s the Material Participation Criteria:Spend more than 500 hours on the short-term rental businessDo substantially everything for the STR businessSpend more than 100 hours on the activity and no one other individual spends more time than you doSignificant participation activity for more than 100 hours, and your combined activity in all significant participation activities exceeds 500 hoursParticipating in the business for five of the 10 previous taxable yearsPersonal service activity (non income-producing) for three of the previous taxable yearsRegular, continuous, provable participation in the business for more than 100 hoursA Cautionary Tale: The Story of JacksonLet's take a moment to learn from the mistakes of others.

Biggest take away is permitting timelines continue to increase!

If you’re willing to continue to do the bookkeeping yourself, there’s several wonderful options on courses you could take for learning how to do RE bookkeeping.  

I used the meetup app on the play store to find out about that.

Although its mainland presence is dwindling, the chain will continue to operate in the U.S.

And we are flirting with exactly that, we see it playing out in actions.

Removing or lowering those LLPA's would level the playing field in terms of pricing, but making investment property loans more affordable is not going to help decrease prices. 

I guess I just rolled with it because I had 45 days to play the game or call in my chips with a +30% payout to the government.